KP woman who unfurls Tiranga at Lal Chowk says it was her ‘conscious but no politics’

“I was passing through a trauma over anti national rants in valley, wanted to give a befitting reply,” Sunita

Deepak Khajuria

JAMMU: Deserted Lal Chowk of Srinagar wearing eerie silence dotted with few men in Khakhi on August 15, suddenly become lively when a Kashmiri woman attired in black and white suit appeared on scene and raised slogans Bharat Mata Ki Jai not once but repeatedly besides unfurling ‘tricolor. ‘

The woman identified as Sunita Arora who made her sudden appearance for few minutes but apparently she had hit the media limelight for her daring intuitive as her video raising slogan ‘Bharat Mata ….’ had gone viral and was not only viewed by lakhs but also got likes and comments.

Very few might be knowing the lady in news is none else but Sunita Arora – a Kashmir Pandit married in Jammu based Dogra family- who opinions it was nothing but her conscious which motivated and inspired her latently to raise patriotic slogans at Srinagar where nationalistic voices have been isolated for the years together.

“I was passing from a trauma since last one month,” says Sunita Arora, while talking to The News Now, further disclosing the sequel behind this event which later went viral said that during traumatizing times finally I decided that I would do something which infact will be a slap on the face of those- raising anti-national voices.

Sunita, who once lived in Karfale Mohalla of Srinagar City and hail from to Budgam District is a daughter of a Late ex-serviceman from army, going a bit of nostalgic evoked that her family shifted to Jammu during Kashmiri Pandit mass migration from the Valley in 1989-90 and then after completing her studies she married to a Dogra family. “After many years of private job, she shifted to media and worked for few electronic channels before she resigned from regular media and working from home as a freelancer,” she disclosed.

Rebutting some claims as appeared in certain media section that she was associated with RSS, Ms Arora categorically said, “I am not affiliated with RSS or BJP and even not part of any such movement ever, but I am still a journalist and moreover a human, a Kashmiri Pandit, who had witnessed this terror in Kashmir.”

When asked what promted her to dare so, she with a pause while looking up towards heaven said, “I was totally depressed after odd sequences in valley viz. attack on Amarnath pilgrims, killing of DySP Ayub and incidents of anti-national sloganeering in Kashmir.”

“While sitting at home for last a month, I recollected myself and ponder we must say that Kashmir belongs to every Kashmiri, every Indian, and so I decided that this Independence Day I will unfurl Tiranga at Srinagar’s historical Lal Chowk and I did the same what I have resolved to self.”

“Knowing that my family won’t allow me to proceed to valley at this juncture, she said and added that I told my family that I got an assignment, so I had to go to Kashmir and I reached in Srinagar on August 14 and on August 15 morning, I started on foot journey to Lal Chowk.”

Determined to accomplish my resolve, I walked 3-4 kms on foot and reached lal Chowk where it was an errie silence on I-Day, she said, “I unfurled tri-colour and started sloganeering Bharat Mata ki Jai.” She added though some cops tried to snatch it (national flag) from me which was unfortunate part but what had happened there saw the world later in the video.”

Narrating her solo unfurling of tricolour, she further added that later police detained her and took her to TRC, where she was lodged with some BJYM activists who also have been detained but later she was released. “After my release I took my flight at 11:50 and flew back to Jammu, she added.

When asked, whether any politician from any political party called her or approached her in last over 30 hours, she briefly said, “I don’t know exactly as my mobile phone remained there with police in Srinagar, but nobody approached me here at my place in Jammu.”

On her any political intentions, she said, “What I did, I did on my own, but let’s see what will be next. I will decide my future in politics after analyzing principles and agenda of the political parties, but in short will continue to work for Jammu and Kashmir.”